Comparison of Dark Personality Traits, Feeling of Alienation and Spiritual Well-Being in People with and without Tendency to Vandalism

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Professor of psychology, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran

2 PhD in psychology, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran

3 Instruction and Research Center of 10 area the prisons Instruction

Abstract

Introduction: The purpose of this research was to compare the Dark personality traits, feeling of alienation and spiritual well-being in people with and without tendency to vandalism.

Method: This survey research was conducted with a comparative causal design. The current research population included all the people living in the prisons of Gilan province in 2020. The sample of the present study was 380 prisoners with and without vandalism (180 with vandalism and 200 without vandalism) who were identified and selected from among the prisoners living in the prisons of Gilan province. To collect data, from the alienation scale (Dean, 1961), the dark personality traits questionnaire (Jenison and Webster, 2010), spiritual well-being scale (Golperor et al., 2013 were used. The research data were analyzed with statistical methods of analysis of variance and independent t-test.

Result: The findings showed that dark personality traits and feelings of alienation are more in prisoners with vandalism, and spiritual well-being is lower in prisoners with vandalism than in prisoners without vandalism (P<0.01).

Discussion and conclusion: These findings have implications for pathology, prevention, and the use of psychological, social, and spiritual training to deal with vandalism in prisoners and to moderate its factors.

Keywords

Clinical Psychology and Personality

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 05 May 2024

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